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Culture • Current Conversations

Betting on Hope

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Welcome to Washington, city of glories and shames. Yesterday I stepped into a world that I know very well, the American Studies Program on Capitol Hill. For 15 years I taught there, and most every semester since I left, am asked to return and lecture, at the beginning and end of each semester—I do it...

Culture • Current Conversations

The Way the World Turns Out

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

For love’s sake, to see oneself as responsible for the way the world turns out. It must have been about ten years ago that I spoke at a college in the Midwest for a Veritas Forum event, and asked a question: can we know the world, and still love the world? I began with a...

Vocation • On Daily Work

To Know the World, and to Still Love It

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

The majority world. I still remember sitting with a worldly wise man in Oxford 25 years ago, and hearing the phrase, “the two-thirds world.” Up to that point I was satisfied with my deepening, broadening world view that saw most of the world as “the third world.” But as we talked that day, I immediately...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

To Know the World, and Still Love the World

Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read

Given what I do, most of the time my conversations are with people who have very honest questions, and they want very honest answers. Yesterday I had lunch with someone who has just returned from the Middle East. Since I have known him, a recent college graduate working in his first job, he has had...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

“God, give Egypt success”: Praying Prayers with A Sense of Belonging in Egypt

Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 3 min read

Missio’s Tuesday “global” edition has had its eyes on Jayson Casper’s blog, A Sense of Belonging, for quite some time. Residing in Cairo, Egypt with his wife and young daughters, Jayson is a writer for the Arab West Report, an electronic journal which translates summaries of the Egyptian press, adding analysis, background research, and interviews — all...

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